Eugène Gley
Deceased Person
1857 – 1930
Who was Eugène Gley?
Marcel Eugène Émile Gley was a French physiologist and endocrinologist born in Épinal, Vosges.
He studied physiology with M.Beaunis in Nancy medicine school, and afterwards worked as assistant to Étienne-Jules Marey in Paris. Later he received the title of professeur agrégé, and in 1908 became a professor at the Collège de France. He was a member of the Académie de Médecine and secretary general of the Société de Biologie. He was a colleague to Charles Richet, and with Richet published the Journal de physiologie et de pathologie générale.
In 1891 Gley was the first to discover the importance of the parathyroid glands, which are four small endocrine glands lying close or embedded in the posterior surface of the thyroid gland. These glands had been recently discovered as an anatomical entity in 1880, however their importance was not understood at the time. Gley realized that the cause of tetany after thyroid operations was the inadvertent destruction of the parathyroid glands. He demonstrated this by removing the parathyroid glands from laboratory animals and witnessing their deaths from tetany. Because of his discovery, parathyroid glands have sometimes been referred to as "Gley's glands".
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